Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
The role of CMO represents an outstanding opportunity for an innovative, compassionate and inclusive leader to influence and shape the direction and future success of the Trust.
You will be attracted by the opportunities that we face in terms of clinical transformation and reconfiguration, capital development, improving the culture across the organisation, recovery from the pandemic and being a member of The Foundation Group with ambitions to be a lead provider at place.
As we take a relentless approach to improving quality across the Trust, you will enable expert clinical leadership to flourish, inspiring others through your actions and relying on your proven track record of visible, credible and effective medical leadership at or close to Board level.
Main duties of the job
I am looking for a talented leader who will be motivated by the opportunity to innovate and whose focus and approach will empower our colleagues to respond to the increased demand on emergency and planned care. You will be driven to work across professional and organisational boundaries, ensuring that the acute health needs of our population are met and that future developments are grounded in the highest standards of patient care and outstanding clinical practice.
The successful candidate will be values driven, a team player and a leader who can inspire change and innovation, developing the talent of our medical workforce and our clinical services, to best meet the needs of the communities we serve.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
1. Best services for local people
2. Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
3. Best use of resources
4. Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job responsibilities
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is responsible for the overall development and leadership of the Medical workforce with executive accountability for quality, patient safety, medicines safety and clinical governance. The CMO is the Caldicott Guardian and the Responsible Officer for revalidation of doctors. Through excellent leadership, the CMO will enable the delivery of high quality of care in line with our vision, strategic objectives and 4ward signature behaviours.
This means providing the best, safest patient experience and best possible patient outcomes by putting patients first. The postholder will develop a professional culture that supports, recruits, nurtures, develops and retains a compassionate, skilled and flexible workforce. This includes enabling diversity in all its forms, a culture of learning and improvement and an ability to lead service innovation and transformation. The postholder will be an executive, voting member of the Board of Directors and report to the Chief Executive.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Medical practitioner with a licence to practice with evidence of extensive experience of working in complex health organisations.
Experience
* Please provide a covering statement here, setting out how you meet the requirements of the role and the drivers for their application. The Person Specification for this role can be found attached to this advert in the "Supporting Documents" section.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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